Valencia, Spain

Event: ICN 2019

Categories:
Science, Engineering

Event Date: 2019-03-28
Abstract Due: 2019-01-29

* Introduction

Over the past years there has been a greater demand for online censorship andsurveillance, as an understandable reaction against hate speech, copyrightviolations, and other cases related to citizen compliance with civil laws andregulations by national authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompaniedby a tendency of extensively censoring online content and massively spying oncitizens actions. Numerous whistleblower revelations, leaks from classifieddocuments, and a vast amount of information released by activists, researchersand journalists, reveal evidence of government-sponsored infrastructure thateither goes beyond the requirements and scope of the law, or operates withoutany effective regulations in place. In addition, this infrastructure oftensupports the interests of big private corporations, such as the companies thatenforce online copyright control.

* Recommended Topics

TICS is a special track in the area of Internet censorship, surveillance and otheradversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a greater extend thesafety (physical security and privacy) of its users. Proposals for TICS 2019should be situated within the field of Internet censorship, networkmeasurements, information controls, surveillance and content moderation.Ideally topics should connect to the following, but not limited to:

- Technical, social, political, and economical implications of Internetcensorship and surveillance- Detection and analysis of network blocking and surveillance infrastructure(hardware or software)- Research on legal frameworks, regulations and policies that imply blocking orlimitation of the availability of network services and online content- Online censorship circumvention and anti-surveillance practices- Network measurements methodologies to detect and categorize networkinterference- Research on the implications of automated or centralized user contentregulation (such as for hate speech, copyright, or disinformation)

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